Campanulaceae

This list of genera was made in July 2025 according to World Flora Online, Plants of the World Online, Stevens 2001 onwards (APWeb), Cupido & Weitz (2016), Eddie & Cuppido (2014), Kadereit & Roquet (in prep.), Knox & Li (2017), Lammers (2011), Morin (2008) and Wang et al. 2014. This list includes only genera present in our herbaria: M and MSB.

All genera (accepted genera in bold)Stored underSynonyms included
Adenophora Fisch.
Asyneuma Griseb. & Schenk
Azorina FeerCampanula L.
Brighamia A.Gray
Burmeistera H.Karst. & Triana
Campanula L.Azorina Feer, Symphyandra A.DC.
Campanumoea BlumeCodonopsis Wall.
Canarina L.Mindium Adans.
Centropogon C.Presl
Cephalostigma A.DC.Wahlenbergia Roth
Clermontia Gaudich.
Codonopsis Wall.Campanumoea Blume, Leptocodon (Hook.f.) Lem.
Craterocapsa Hilliard & B.L.Burtt
Cyananthus Wall. ex Benth.
Cyanea Gaudich.Rollandia Gaudich.
Cyclocodon Griff. (prev. under Campanumoea Blume, Codonopsis Wall.)
Cylindrocarpa Regel
Cyphia P.J.Bergius
Cyphocarpus Miers
Delissea Gaudich.
Dialypetalum Benth.
Diastatea Scheidw.
Downingia Torr.
Edraianthus A.DC. Halacsyella Janch.
Favratia Feer (prev. under Campanula L.)
Feeria Buser
Githopsis Nutt.
Grammatotheca C.Presl
Gunillaea Thulin
Halacsyella Janch.Edraianthus A.DC.
Hesperocodon Eddie & Cupido (prev. under Wahlenbergia Schumach.)
Heterocodon Nutt.
Heterotoma Zucc.
Hippobroma G.Don
Howellia A.Gray
Hypsela C. Presl Lobelia L.
Isotoma Lindl.
Jasione L.
Kericodon Cupido (prev. under Prismatocarpus L’Hér.)
Legousia Durande
Leptocodon (Hook.f.) Lem.Codonopsis Wall.
Lightfootia L’Hér.Wahlenbergia Roth
Lobelia L.Hypsela C. Presl, Pratia Gaudich.
Lysipomia KunthRhizocephalum Weddell
Merciera A.DC.
Michauxia L’Hér. (prev. under Mindium Adans.)
Microcodon A.DC.
Mindium Adans.Canarina L.
Monopsis Salisb.
Musschia Dumort.
Namacodon Thulin
Nemacladus Nutt.Parishella A.Gray
Nesocodon Thulin (prev. under Wahlenbergia Schumach.)
Ostrowskia Regel
Palmerella A.Gray
Parishella A.GrayNemacladus Nutt.
Peracarpa Hook.f. & Thomson
Petromarula Vent. ex R.Hedw.
Physoplexis Schur
Phyteuma L.
Platycodon A.DC.
Pratia Gaudich.Lobelia L.
Prismatocarpus L’Hér.
Pseudocodon D.Y.Hong & H.Sun (prev. under Codonopsis Wall.)
Pseudonemacladus McVaugh (prev. under Nemacladus Nutt.)
Rhizocephalum Wedd.Lysipomia Kunth
Roella L.
Rollandia Gaudich.Cyanea Gaudich.
Sergia Fed. (prev. under Campanula L.)
Siphocampylus Pohl
Siphocodon Turcz.
Solenopsis C.Presl
Symphyandra A.DC.Campanula L.
Theilera E.Phillips (prev. under Wahlenbergia Schumach.)
Trachelium Tourn. ex L.
Treichelia Vatke
Trematolobelia Zahlbr. ex Rock
Triodanis Raf.
Wahlenbergia Schrad. ex RothCephalostigma A.DC., Lightfootia L’Hér.
Wimmerella Serra, M.B.Crespo & Lammers

References

  • Cupido, C. N., Weitz, F. M. (2016). Kericodon (Campanulaceae s.s.), a new monotypic wahlenbergioid genus from South Africa. Kew Bulletin, 71, 56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-016-9671-4
  • Eddie, W.M.  M., Cupido, C. N. (2014). Hesperocodon, a new generic name for Wahlenbergia hederacea (Campanulaceae): phylogeny and capsule dehiscence. Edinburgh Journal of Botany. 71. 63 – 74. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960428613000310
  • Kadereit, J.W. & Roquet, C. in prep.
  • Knox, E. B., Li, C. (2017). The East Asian origin of the giant lobelias. American Journal of Botany, 104, 924-938. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1700025
  • Lammers, T. G. (2011). Revision of the Infrageneric Classification of Lobelia L. (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 98, 1, 37-62. https://doi.org/10.3417/2007150
  • Morin, N. R. (2008). Nomenclatural changes in Nemacladus (Campanulaceae). Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 2, 1, 397–400. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41971649
  • Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since].
  • Wang, Q., Ma, X.-T., Hong, D.- Y. (2014). Phylogenetic analyses reveal three new genera of the Campanulaceae. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 52, 5, 541-550. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12096 

Foto: Campanula L. © Luo Chen